38 THE MAMMOTH CAVE. 



Other marks of dilapidation are also apparent, 

 from the same cause; but as the return-tide of 

 visitors Segins to flow, with its attendant pros- 

 perity, evidences of restoration are visible. 



The building and the surrounding grounds 

 are in marked contrast with those seen by the 

 way from Cave City. The visitor is surprised 

 to find in this uncultivated "backwoods" such 

 a large and cheerful-looking dwelling and so 

 handsome a lawn. The lawn comprises about 

 two acres of ground, is laid out with gravel 

 walks, and is tastefully ornamented with cedar 

 and other trees. 



There* are not many summer resorts where 

 an individual or a family can pass a few weeks 

 more pleasantly or more profitably than at the 

 Mammoth Cave Hotel. Here are to be found 

 all the advantages of a first-class watering-place 

 hotel, with the addition of fine country scenery, 

 and daily opportunities of observing Nature's 

 great subterranean wonder. 



In the yard, immediately in front of the main 

 building, stands a very curious-looking sand- 

 stone rock, about three and a half feet square. 

 One side of the rock has a regular surface which 

 is covered with perforations similar in size and 

 shape (though more widely separated) to the 



